2012-12-23
2012-12-23
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Newsmakers 2
Book TV 1
Consumer Credit Reports 1
Post-Assad Syria 1
Washington This Week 1
Weekend Early Start 1
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CSPAN 5
CNNW 1
CSPAN2 1
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assad 7
syria 6
washington 4
benghazi 3
damascus 3
iran 3
john kerry 3
obama administration 3
russia 3
afghanistan 2
china 2
chuck hagel 2
cia 2
connecticut 2
engel 2
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CSPAN - Newsmakers
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Newsmakers
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bells. it is potentially troublesome. >> i was going to ask a question about washington. in the case of susan rice and seems like, it we're going through exercise of pre betting. -- pre-betting. is this a new and healthy trend in washington? >> i do not think it is really new. i think today with the media, everybody knows about everything the minute it happens. perhaps it is new because of that. we are a democratic society, and open society. people have a right and an obligation to voice their opinions and vent. if your appointing someone to a high post, you need to look behind the credentials. chuck higgle is qualified to be secretary of defense -- hegel is qualified to be secretary of defense. you want to have these other things available as well. he wants someone to not be controversial. if there are controversial, because there will be distracted from what they ordinarily should be doing. you want to have a noncontroversial nominee. >> i wanted to press you a little bit on this. your colleague shelley berkley has said that chuck hagel is unacceptable for secretary of defense. do
CSPAN - Washington This Week
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Dec 23, 2012
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Washington This Week
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Dec 23, 2012


of u.s. security agents. benghazi, tripoli and washington coordinated effectively with each other on the night of the attacks. the interagency response was timely and appropriate. but there was not enough time for u.s. military forces to have made a difference. having said that, it is not reasonable nor feasible to tether u.s. forces at the ready to respond to protect every high risk post in the world. we have found that there was no immediate tactical warning of the september 11 attacks. if there was a knowledge gap in the intelligence community's en understanding of extremist militias in benghazi -- in this context, increased violence .ailed to com we did not find that any individual u.s. government employee engaged in willful misconduct or knowingly ignored his or her responsibilities. we did conclude that certain state department bureau level senior officials in critical positions of authority and responsibility in washington demonstrate a lack of leadership and management ability a program for senior ranks and their responses to security concerns posed by the special mission.
CNNW - Weekend Early Start
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Dec 23, 2012
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Weekend Early Start
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Dec 23, 2012


service in washington on friday. >>> in new orleans, a federal judge has given final approval to bp settlement with gulf coast businesses and residents. bp will pay at least $7.8 billion in compensation to settle claims from the deep water horizon disaster in 2010. there is no cap on the settlement except for those claims from those in the sea food industry, so, the final bill could still be much higher. thousands of people made claims from texas to florida. >>> moving overseas to a deadly cold snap in the ukraine. hundreds more have been treated for hypothermia and frost bite. the government has set up thousands of heating centers to help people deal with the extreme cold. the temperatures there have dropped down to just one degree fahrenheit, far below the average for this time of the year. >>> well, this morning it looks like a major u.s. ally will have a new constitution, but theare still a whole lot of questions about egypt's democratic future. the draft charter has been approved by a majority of voters in a referendum. official results are expected later on. two rounds of voti
CSPAN - Post-Assad Syria
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Dec 23, 2012
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Dec 23, 2012


are islamists. that has taken on a dirty word in washington. it is important to distinguish between islamists who are looking to establish a syrian country -- nationalists looking for an islamist government and syria as opposed to the radical stubbornness who are looking for a regional or global sectarian overtones to their ideology. that is something that was potentially inevitable as the conflict continued. it definitely happen after the only people providing armed support to the opposition were saudis and turks interested in seeing oscar -- islamism power after the fact. that was a greater share in the balance of power among the rebel groups inside syria. whatever the reasons for reaching this point, we are here now and the reality is the first up is being able to get behind a coalition that incredibly account for the vast majority of the opposition fighters on the ground. i think this coalition as that. >> thank you both for your comments. we would like to open up to the audience for questions and answers. please identify yourself and ask a question. >> i have seen members of the free syr
CSPAN2 - Book TV
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Dec 22, 2012
CSPAN2
Book TV
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Dec 22, 2012


eisenhower the granddaughter of the dwight eisenhower at the eisenhower institute in washington d.c.. this is about 50 minutes. .. >> the answer was there is no plan. i blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. it was criminal, said the president. the truth was the united states and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the united states still did not know who was running the soviet union. they sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like colonel sanders from kentucky fried chicken, clearly, a figure head. the head of the red army, ike's ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. eisenhower spent his son, john, to do some spying. subdued and shaken, just whispered, "things are not as they seem." presidentize -- president eisenhower found out who was in charge on the fifth day of the conference. the big pier o
CSPAN - Consumer Credit Reports
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Dec 23, 2012
CSPAN
Consumer Credit Reports
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Dec 23, 2012


. the intermission that we have coming into washington from a far is limited and imperfect. there are and nuns out there that we simply cannot know. -- unknowns out there. one as an analyst has to bear that in mind thinking where this can go. we simply do not know. >> with that pessimistic but very realistic and honest one, i want to thank you joseph and the mona for a very stimulating discussion. thank you to the audience for your questions. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> today on newsmakers, we're joined by elliot engel. he will talk about how the house and senate are winning issues around the september attack on the u.s. consulatein benghazi and the state department report in hearings held last week on the attack. >> if you work for him, you would get a material, sometimes generous overbearing, sometimes almost cruel boss. he did not know how to apologize. men of his age and class, they're not going to apologize to a young secretary or typist. he had a way of sort of turning the tables in his version

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